hi, windows comes with the following defaults:
system wide environment variables "TMP" and "TEMP" set to the value "%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp" user overwritten variables set to "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp" when logging on using rdp these values are correctly set by windows to the user specific values. a cygwin shell withing this logon inherits these values. now, if i logon using opensshd installed as a cygwin service, these two variables have the system wide value. as a fact, no user specific vars are set. is this case normal users dont have write access to "%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp" (again, windows default). since these values are used for the api function GetTempPath(A|W) some native win32 programs fail due to access denied error. shouldnt these values be set by cygwin (perhaps setuid?). or did i simply configure something the wrong way? regards, andre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
